Fall, 1968. A teacher finds Nathaniel behind the toolshed, talking to no one at all, and for the first time he has to lie to protect his friend.

Then Eli disappears for three days. When he comes back, a name rises out of him like a word left over from a dream, and frost forms in a ring at noon. Many miles from Cedar Hollow, an old man sits by a window, writing the same two words over and over until the pencil tears through the page.

Discover where it all leads in The Midnight Mailman by Philip James: www.philipjamesauthor.com

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Content note: this episode contains childhood fear and supernatural menace.

Written by Philip James.

Cedar Hollow, Pennsylvania. Autumn, 1968.

Nathaniel Thorne has a friend nobody else can see. Now something else has started to see him.

A woman stands in the church aisle where she shouldn’t be. A shape waits at the foot of Nathaniel’s bed, and even Eli won’t say its name. And at half past two in the morning, his mother lies wide awake, already certain that something walked through her house that night.

October Falls is a gothic horror anthology. Every season, a new town. Season One: Dead End on Wexler Street.